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“I can’t put his life in the hands of people who don’t know how to help him and I’m desperately sad that he is so unwell. He is in daily pain relief at the moment whilst we wait for the biopsy and try to find someone who can remove the lumps.”

Emily Keates with Fella her house pig

Channel 4’s Super Vet answered the call to help, but Emily went on her vet’s recommendation when the vet school said they could carry out the same treatment nearer to home.

“He’s my best friend - I’ve not ever had a connection like that with any animal,” said Emily. “As soon as I found out I’ve been struggling to sleep. I am really distressed by it all. I can’t imagine my life without him.”

Emily first noticed something was wrong when Fella started losing his hair in November, but it was only three weeks ago that she thought something seemed “really wrong” because he had lost 2st.

“The vets came over and they had a look and said they could feel three tennis ball sized lumps. I’m still waiting for the biopsy results", revealed Emily.

“Mostly when lumps are found in pigs they are put down and they don’t usually live to any age for them to develop any lumps, but they can live to 25 plus - they are usually slaughtered at six to eight months.”

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Wild boar cross Fella, who has over 13,000 followers on Facebook, grew up in the Soham home of his rescuer and her three dogs for the first 18-months of his life.

He now lives in the garden of Emily’s home, with her two other pet pigs, 30 stone pot-belly ‘Miss Lady’ and another wild boar cross, 13 stone ‘Bobby’, who she rescued from a closing down farm in Soham.

They all live in the garden but eight stone Fella is treated more like a dog by financial administrator Emily who has been working from home since he got ill “so he can sit by the radiator while I sit on the sofa and work.”

Emily, who is four months pregnant with her partner John, is planning to move into a property with a bigger garden to accommodate her pigs and says she wants Fella to survive so her child can know her best friend.

“We have had to move further out to get somewhere with more land which isn’t great for him, but he knows that the pigs come first,” she said.